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What his time at the FTC suggests about how he'd run the White House. Long before Ted Cruz was a big-name senator and conservative rock star, wowing the crowd at Liberty University in the early days of his presidential bid, he was just another lawyer toiling away in virtual anonymity under George W.

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Today's Jolt also discusses the increasingly violent situation in Yemen... The Pentagon announced that the USS Iwo Jima and USS Fort McHenry are on standby in the Red Sea and are ready to respond to the rebel uprising in Yemen. The Pentagon spokesman says that the two ships offer enough firepower to respond to "any contingency."

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So those reports from January turned out to be accurate: Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive by the Taliban for five years after leaving his remote post in Afghanistan, was charged by the Army with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.

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Yesterday, President Obama declared that because of his serious differences with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, "this can't be reduced to a matter of somehow let's all hold hands and sing 'Kumbaya.'" Under President Obama's unilateral decisions in foreign policy, the United States is closer than we have ever been to Iran, and more estranged than ever from Israel.

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From the midweek Morning Jolt: IG: Turns Out Homeland Security Is a Favor Factory, Too The Washington Post reveals that the Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General figured out...

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For the scoffers, Cruz could go toe-to-toe with overt social conservatives like Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum, he's obviously competing with Rick Perry for the Texas donor base, and he's competing with Walker and Jindal for the I'm-the-true-conservative-in-the-field slot.